AnarchistArtificer

Reasonably difficult, I think. I'm basing my answer off of the vibes I get from open source firmware projects for routers, which are far more common. I haven't heard of similar for printers, which suggests that there is less of a foundation to work on. I think Brother, in particular, was a brand that has typically been decent up until now.

I also get the sense that programming firmware is different enough to programming software that a software developer trying to contribute would find it really difficult(?. Someone correct me if I'm wrong — I'm not a software developer, but a scientist who writes code, so I'm speaking outside of my main expertise). But this loops back in with the lack of existing projects making it harder to get to grips with how to do stuff — part of why I like open source programs is because I can look through a project and try to understand what the code is doing.

I haven't watched it yet (besides a few clips I've seen here and there), but I'm reminded of how so many games in the 2010s got caught chasing graphical fidelity. That led to a surge in interest in indie games, many of which had objectively shitty graphics, but an art style that was deliberate and interesting. A recent game in that vein that I have played and loved is Signalis, an incredibly artistic survival horror game.

Gaming and animated movies are obviously two completely different mediums, but I reckon we can use the same lens here; I'm going to wait until I've seen this movie (or at least, substantial chunks of it) before I judge it. As you suggest, it being voted best animated movie suggests the story must be great, but what I'm really intrigued by is how well this particular animation style works to support its characters and story

I hadn't noticed this until you pointed it out, but yeah, their logos are fire

They certainly seem keen to disown him. Bloody idiots

This is a different kind of boat, but I met someone recently who lives in a houseboat like this and apparently it works out cheaper than buying a house near where they work. It's moored on the Thames, some way upriver from London.

The funniest part was how relatively normal this person was. They work as a lawyer.

In many, if not all of the cases outlined, the police officers only had the opportunity to get to know their victims because they were undercover in their community (and often using the relationships as a means to bolster their cover). If this isn't rape by deception, I don't know what is.

2010 was also exceptional because this was the most seats that the Lib Dems had won in a long time (possibly ever?), which, at the time, people speculated could be the end to the UK's defacto 2-party system (not counting the Scottish National Party (SNP)). Then the lib-dems squandered that good will and took 14 years to regain their footing. Fun fun fun.

The leading theory for the cause is (and bear in mind I'm simplifying a heckton here) "we don't know". There's possibly a genetic component involved, but if so, then it's super complex and doesn't have a clear causal mechanism (in that a person could have most/all of the genes of interest for autism, and not be autistic, and we don't really know why that is. Or why some people have none of those markers, but still have autism). Environmental contamination is a possibility, but we don't know nearly enough to guess what that would be, given that it wouldn't necessarily be microplastics

But there definitely is a lot of evidence supporting OP's claim, in that we are very confident that our increased understanding of autism has led to an increase in diagnoses (especially amongst groups such as girls; I am one of those girls who only got a diagnosis because of our shifts in understanding). We are extremely confident that our rate of false negatives has dropped over the years (i.e. people who actually do have autism but go undiagnosed). However, it's hard to estimate whether the actual underlying true rate of autism has actually gone up, given how much our understanding has changed in a relatively short span

I'm just an internet stranger, but I'm proud of your growth. Many people in similar positions would've spent those years digging themselves deeper, because confronting the cognitive dissonance is not easy (you may well have spent some of that time digging deeper, but you made it out, and I'm glad you're here with us)

Based on what I'm hearing coming from the Democrats lately, I also feel like this could be argued it's also Sanders trying to reconcile with his party (by showing them how fucking dumb they're being by doubling down on their anti-left nonsense)

What the fuuuuck

You know, I'm actually not surprised. I wish I was, but I'm not.

It do be a slippery slope though